libladyohio's Comments (73)

“A major reason why Obama is slipping some in the polls is due to true progressives being upset that he's largely governing center right. I know the wing nuts love saying that America is center right but that's dead wrong - maybe among a good majority of older white males and some others in southerly directions but that's about it. Young people (other than brainwashed "Jesus Camp" victims) overwhelmingly just don't care about all the social wedge issues that the republicans have successfully used since Tricky Dick.

Watch what happens to his polls numbers if he ever starts doing what he said he would do while he was running - though I'm not holding my breath for that.”

“This is better than nothing, some things are in there that are good (or really less bad) for a few of us. That said there is no reason on this earth why we need for profit insurance companies when really all we need are bookkeepers. Insurance companies perform no health services for us, they are superfluous, nothing but leeches, sucking the life out of us while robbing us..

I'd love for anyone in Washington to explain to me why we need them. What does a CEO making millions have to do with keeping any of us healthy? We go it this way, capitalism run a muck, pretty much alone among modern countries.

Once again, the big truism is that real, serious, systemic change, change we need to level the playing field among Americans, will only come to be if we go to public financing of elections and curtail lobbying/bribery. Money is the prime reason this bill is so watered down, and it will be the reason it will be further watered down in the mystery box know as the US Senate.”

“Life in 2009, when two shows on a comedy channel are the ones really honing in on these pompous hypocrites and their lies and inane statements and actions - and calling them on it.

Colbert really went after him too, brilliantly as usual. I say let them filibuster, 2 hours of dull, boring, monotone phone book reading by Lieberman may be torture enough to swing some blue dogs and moderate republicans to our side, just so he would stop.”

“It really says something about where we are as a country where, other than some of the day on MSNBC (more than there was, Dylan Ratigan is smokin' these days), we have to look to a comedy channel to expose what is really going on.

Take notes on all this Harry Reid. He and the other lily livered democratic leaders should take notes not only from Stewart/Colbert but from Mr. Grayson who is my new hero, a man who doesn't speak politician speak but tells it exactly like it is and calls out and beats down people who richly deserve it.”

“Amen, The great unraveling started when the beloved Gipper slashed the top tax rate from 70 to 28 %.. The well off were suffering having to get along with three servants instead of six and that was just wrong, so Ronnie thought the rest of us could miss a meal or two so as to ease the suffering of those brave rich folks.

True progressives need to go after those five fake democrats, we need to find true democrats to challenge them in their next primaries. It's hard enough fighting self admitted wing nuts, we don't need to have to fight republicans in disguise as well.”

“A complete audit of the Fed is way, way overdue, and you have to believe there is a reason that there is strong institutional push against this, who knows what will be revealed with an audit.

What's interesting is this is one issue that Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders see eye to eye on.”

“I second that! What an indictment of that state, it is obvious to anyone still rooted here on earth with half a brain can easily see that this guy is a religious zealot nut case along with hardly being the sharpest tool in the shed. It clearly demonstrates that there are two Americas in another way, the delusional and the non delusional.”

“This is just stunning, even for a top flight corporate stooge like Baucus. It's like he went beyond what even his masters the insurance lobbyists would wish for in their wildest dreams.

Max even had the nerve to refer to this plan as affordable. I think he's lost touch with reality.

If something like this actually passed, homeless camps would see a shocking population increase even from the startling increases already.”

“Not only wouldn't allow them, he sneered as he had them arrested and chained. I despise Baucus, he's a 100% corporate toadie, an A-one creep.

I will donate money to whoever challenges him in his next primary.”

“Now we see the tragic results of Reagan causing so many insane people to be turned out into the street. How nice they had a reunion in Washington. Or so it seemed. Crazy on parade.

Kudos to Jon for pointing out the incredible hypocrisy of Hannnity and Beck, and I'm sure the drug addled gasbag Rush did the same flip flop. Of course finding hypocrisy among these nut cases is like shooting fish in a barrel.”

“The cautious honeymoon was over for me when right off the bat Obama put in those foxes (Summers, Geithner) to guard the hen house. Why not people like Stiglitz and Reich?

That was the first tangible clue that Obama wasn't really going to go after Wall Street like he should. And the news and politicians keep focusing on GDP and the stock market way too much, GDP and the stock market don't reflect what's going on on Main Street.

I'm hoping that indeed the audit of the Fed proceeds and that it brings down a monumental house of cards. In essence what has been going on since the Death Valley Days president is a massive transfer of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the upper classes. We need to push Obama as hard as we can to start reversing that flow, and if he resists we need to challenge him in 2012 with a charismatic true progressive. The hour is growing late and soon it will be too late.”

“It may take a third party to get much changed. I hope all the liberals who were so thrilled with Obama's speech are moving back into reality a day later.

We need a progressive leader who will call this culture out, ala FDR, someone who will take on the corporate criminals, and it sure doesn't seem like Obama is inclined to go there, in fact quite the opposite. He's far from dumb so I'm sure he knows what's what, so something else is holding him back.

We could be Denmark++ if we could just get the government more about all it's people instead of what it is now, mostly all about Wall Street and old money. That's so tragic. If we have to maybe we can hang on long enough for the oldest generation to be replaced by the next generation, because younger ones trend much more progressive and most don't care about the social wedge issues that have caused so many to vote against their own self interest.”

“I agree totally, we're getting a public option that is no option and is really more like Conrad's lame coop idea. The out of pocket max benefit depends on what that amount is, and on, and on.

In the end he again took his progressive base for granted, he even seemed to chastise us while he crowed about ideas from McCain et al.

In the end it would do some good things I suppose, really good if you're one of the leech insurance companies. I need reminded again why we need them at all.”

“The process has become a joke, the sole reason there is a problem passing a robust public option is that so many blue dogs are being bribed (the true definition of "lobbying") by the insurance companies and drug makers. Oh - I guess it's not the sole reason, the nut case republicans are another - though beyond being nuts they're making money hand over fist from the lobbyists as well.

And also, what we're talking about here is a far cry from all or nothing. It's already been watered down drastically and in reality is forcing even more money to be thrown to the leeches who have already robbed us blind while they are killing us.”

“Good for Melanie, go girl!”

“If Obama keeps throwing us under the bus ala the drug sell out then I could well see a challenge. In the long run, to get any kind of real fundamental change, to get back to our government working for the people instead of corporations, we probably will have to challenge the 2 party dominance system and move to IRV.

As it is set up now, money talks, it runs enough of Washington, a majority of the Supremes, and the vast majority of media. Tough to beat that set up. It gets depressing, I've gone all around the am dial here in central Ohio and Rush is on every two bit station in the state, making sure those rural folks who don't have diddly keep voting against their own best interest. If only we had a hero like that V guy in the movie to wake folks up.”

“This guy is slime personified but the wife has to be a major league sicko too. It's just all so awful what he and they caused. Jaycee and those kids will need decades of counseling and even that likely won't be enough. It's not the kids fault at all, but they will always be a reminder to Jaycee of what happened to her, how he robbed her of a complete childhood.

It's just all so sad, it's wonderful she's free from him but I don't see how in the end this will have a very happy ending.”

“I can't see how anyone could be against this, why should the fed get a pass from auditing? I also suspect there is a good reason they do not want any outside accounting of what they've done and are doing.

The cool thing is the strange bedfellows this cause has brought about.”

“Big money rules our political system, there are more than a few politicians with our best interests in mind, but many more are bound the do the bidding of their dark masters, the corporations. The major media is now almost completely corporately owned, so they haven't been really doing the job a free press is supposed to do for some time. Getting any kind of reform, any kind of real level playing field, is going to be an enormously difficult task.

To get elected Clinton said all the right populist things, so did Obama. However they acted and talked much differently once in office. So many of us were so excited when they got elected, only to be often bitterly disappointed once they took office. Free trade/flat earth stuff, naming people who helped create the fiscal mess we fell into to fix the mess, still spying on us, still wasting lives and cash on idiotic foreign "wars".

In the past we always rebounded from robber baron eras, we may this time as well, but it will be much harder now because of media manipulation, too many people get their world view exclusively now from Rush, Hannity, Bill-O and the network news. They may as well be sheep.”

“If this guy is a democrat I'm Cleopatra. But that's the problem with the democratic party , he's hardly a rarity, there are more dems like him than dems like Kucinich.

We might as well be cattle to a big percentage of democrats and about all the republicans. We count for zilch if we don't have a few million in the bank.

But...thin­gs will fall apart sooner rather than later. The dollar as world currency is in jeopardy, China, Japan and a host of others own our debt and tons of property and companies here. We're basically a bankrupt nation and it seems inevitable that things will go to Hell at some point.”

“I'm done with the democratic party if they sell us out on health care. Done. I couldn't be more thoroughly disgusted at this nonsense. Maybe they should all be made to go check out Denmark, it sure worked with Lou Dobbs.

You would think they aren't so dense that they don't see that they are going to blow a big hole in their base if they throw us under the bus for their masters, insurance companies and the drug companies.”

“Obama is dead wrong, we need to bring even more pressure on these democrats in name only(dinos)

The heat we've applied to date is the only thing that has prevented any kind of decent public option from being already shelved. Franken being seated leaves the democrats with no excuse.for not getting it done.”

“Good for George, if he can pretend to be an architect why not also an architect for peace? Nothing else has worked in oh, forever.”

“It's always encouraging to see that the republican leadership in Washington is right in tune with the American people. Seriously, you almost have to almost admire the loyalty if these.folk­s, willing to go down in flames to protect their wealthy capaitilistic benefactors. Of course that would be more humorous if we didn't have democrats also not in tune like Max Baucus and Kent Conrad.”

“Taxes on the wealthy should go up - our most robust times as a nation have been with a much higher top tax rate than it is now. The top rate was over 90% from 1950 till after JFK got murdered. That might be a little extreme but - get it back up to at least 60% and that's a lot of extra revenue.Ro­nnie huffed and puffed and got it down to 28%, it hasn't reached 40% again, it's currently 25 and that's not enough, Nobody needs obscene amounts of money.

I;m hardly wealthy but I'd be willing to pay a bit more federal tax so that nobody had to worry about a health care bill again and also hopefully everyone that wanted to could go to college, not just the kids of the very well off and star athletes, which is about where we are now.”